U2 unsure about 2006 tour

The current North American leg of U2's Vertigo tour wraps up on December 19th in Portland, Oregon. Meanwhile, there's already speculation about what the Irish quartet plans to do in 2006. Guitarist The Edge told us that the group hasn't yet decided where, or even if, it will play next year: "We haven't had any kind of formal approach for 2006. There's been lots of vague discussions about it, and I don't really think we can say definitively at this point, one way or the other...We don't even really have an agenda to consider. We're still, our focus is really on this tour right now to the end of the year, and then we might do something in Australia and Japan. Again, it's kind of too early to say."

Besides two North American legs, the Vertigo tour played in Europe this past spring and summer.

U2 begin a five-show run at New York City's Madison Square Garden on Friday (October 7th).